April 22, 2024 • 22 mins
Where are Americans happiest? Apparently in a Dallas-area suburb! Which one is it??? We have bullet train news!
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I don't know, man. Ilived in Dallas for like eight years,
and six point thirty five has beenunder construction for like eight years. The
highway tolls come from Dallas forworth maneight dollars. I don't know, man,
it's the speak easy. I'm ninetyseven one, the freak. All
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right, we're nearing time for Idon't know, man, But guess what,
As is always the case, there'sstill time for you to get in.
You know. That's a radio thing. A radio thing, I mean,
a real world thing would be totell you that we're nearing time for
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it and you don't have any moretime to get in. A radio thing
is we're starting to approach it,and yes, there's always time for you
to get in. That's the differencebetween radio and the real world. If
you want to get in, getin. Yeah. If you want to
get in, get in. Ifyou want to sing out, sing out?
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All right, let's see where werewe here? God? Yes,
Dallas, Texas, Dallas. Ithink this is the lineup that works best
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Dallas. Whenever I'm selling in,whenever mister Dallas comes in, I just
feel like Mike slows us down insome ways. Oh really like mister Dallas
is here. Well, I loveDallas, so we've got topic alignment there,
alignment Dallas. I've heard people saythat things take another year once we
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can get Mike out in Dallas,Texas. Yeah, I've heard people say
that everything is better without it,Dallas, Texas. Mister Dallas. Who,
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thank you, thank you, thankyou, thank you. Hello.
Hi, Hi, mister Dallas.Hi. Hi. Do you remember TC?
Yeah? I never can remember theinitials, but I remember him.
Oh you see him? You don'tforget him? Yeah? And distinctive looking,
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yeah, very distinctive. Well,I have something about Dallas for you
today. Actually good. I reallydon't like this. I don't like this
one bit bad because this has todo with a suburb. Oh, Julie's
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been spending time in suburbs. Yeah, Frisco, Saturday, Kid Vanya or
whatever it Zania. It was raining. I didn't know what to do with
them. Well, there's an outfitcalled smart Asset, and smart Assets set
out to find where Americans are happiest. Oh see what they did. They're
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a smart asset. Yeah, they'rea financial technology firms, big ass and
they found at a place not inbut near our fair bourgh is the nation's
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second happiest place. Congratulations to GlenHeights. I don't think it's Heights.
What about the twin cities of Wilmerand Hutchins. I don't think it's the
twin city of these Wilmurt and Hutchins. In fact, you better head north.
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No it's not in that area.No, no, it's not.
It better not be Frisco. Ohis it? Is it south of Frisco?
Yeah? I guess, Okay,I think I know what it is.
What is Plano? It is Plano. Yeah, it's a happy place.
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Is the nation's second happiest place.That's crazy. What happens when you
cross over from Plano to Frisco orfrom Plano to somewhere else where. Everybody
just gets unhappy. All these listsare total bs. I lived in Plano.
I mean we were on the right, on the line. I went
to Plano schools. Technically, wereyou happy, Richardson? No, I
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was miserable the whole time. Ionly got happy once I made my way
into Dallas and see the only partof the metroplex worth living. You know
whatever, If people are happy inplaying On, I'm happy for them.
I feel like there's some flaws tothe experience in my opinion, Well,
would you like to hear how smartAsset went about evaluating go ahead places?
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They took into account the marriage rate, the average traffic volume, it's marriage
eal happy in their studies. Ireally don't know. I generally found see
how it could uh yeah, freshlydivorced people. If you're looking for a
happiness rate, I want to knowthe guys who just got out if I've
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found them to be pretty happy.By the large city in town has the
highest population of people who are justdivorced. Yeah, they'll be happy.
The percent of house holds earning morethan one hundred thousand dollars, yeah,
played into this. That helps.The share of residents below the poverty line
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played into this, as well aslife expectancy and the number of residents who
report being physically inactive. Plano scoredexceptionally well all across the board. More
than fifty two percent of its householdsearn more than one hundred thousand dollars and
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only slightly less than five percent orbelow the poverty line, which for a
family of forrest thirty one two hundreddollars. I think you should just drive
through there. You know everyone.You can hear us right now. The
large majority of those people can drivethrough Plano, and I think, if
you have the time this afternoon,just take one drive through and you'll see
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how woefully those metrics don't capture whatactually happens is. Even on the income
thing, I think you need alike they got the minimum there, you
know, like if you're making aboveone hundred thousand, I think that anyone,
if you search your life experience,I'm pretty sure you'll agree there should
be a maximum too. I don'tfeel like it's just a straight line.
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People get happier the more money theymake. No, I would agree with
that. I think there's a pointin there where you have to make so
much money. In order to makethat much money, you have to be
making sacrifices. You have to beputting your job as like a proportion of
your attention. That doesn't really help. In twenty twenty two, I agree,
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the medium house medium household income inPlano was about one hundred and five
thousand dollars according to the US Census. Now compare that to the border town
of Laredo, which was rated thesecond least happy city in the country.
We're more, Only twenty six percentof households earn more than one hundred thousand
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dollars. Twenty percent live below thepoverty line. The median household income in
twenty twenty two in Laredo was roughlysixty thousand dollars. I've gotten biled so
much less than that, it's noteven funny. Yeah, I'd rather live
in, you know, Plano,than Laredo. I wouldn't too, so
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I guess they're capturing something. ButI wonder, I don't know. I
don't want to paint Laredo as abeautiful utopia. I've never been there.
Maybe it is. No, Ihaven't either, But couldn't you see a
situation since it's Laredo specifically, You'retalking about the people who did successfully cross
the border, and I bet allof them were making a lot less than
the numbers you just read. Veryrecently, I wonder if there's a degree
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of gratitude in Laredo that we mightfind refreshing. Maybe could be there could
be a lot of people down therewho are just happy that they made it
across, Yeah, and are willingto be contributing members of American society.
Yeah, Their income doubled once theymade it across. Yeah, things are
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going perspective right, Yeah, thelife expectancy in Plano is eighty two point
two compared to seventy eight point threein Dallas. Interesting really, so if
we move, So when we turnedseventy eight or seventy seven, just to
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be safe, we should move toPlano. Yeah, by ourselves a few
more years, five more years.I think it's probably just just capturing,
like just how many there's some homelesspeople in Plano, but like not a
lot, whereas Dallas is a highershow. I just I think it's probably
the difference in life expectancy is explainedentirely by people who in situation that we're
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probably not going to find ourselves in, which is in a flex. It's
just an observation. Although you know, I think that was I'm pretty close.
I'm pretty close to the margins.That was a flex. If I've
ever heard I've ever ended the room, the odds of living in a tent
a year from now, I thinkthe highest on my side of the table.
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So I'm not not trying to highstep too much. Roughly ninety percent
of Plano residents have health insurance comparedto the league seventy seven percent in Dallas.
So there. Yeah, that's someof what I'm talking about about,
that life expectancy. Now, Iknow you may find this shocking, TC,
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but this is not the first timePlano has received attention for just how
happy it is. In twenty twentytwo, was named the sixth happiest city
in the US. It has alsobeen named one of the safest cities and
one of the best places to raisea family. Yeah. Yeah, this
was the drum beat my entire lifegrowing up there. And I don't know,
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man, I I would have likedsomewhere else. We got one.
We got one in the wild.We need to save it forever. Now.
If you're looking for the happiest state, though, yeah, that is
the happiest state, Hawaii, you'llhave to head for California, where three
of the cities landed in the topten. Okay, I find that rather
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difficult to believe. Why are theyall moving here then, California or Texas?
That's right. California is a niceplace, Yeah it is. There's
a lot of beautiful vistas there is. There's a lot of your sister lives
there, yeah she does. There'sa lot of nice stuff out there,
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A lot of nice places out there, but there's also a lot of suffering.
Yeah, And these days, wheneverI see anything about California, what
I see mostly is how miserable thecities are, how miserable. San Francisco,
a place that I used to lovegoing to, is always I don't
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think i'd want to go out there. Now you should try it. You
don't know until you get there.Yeah, I know. I mean there
are a couple of other places likethat, like Seattle, Yeah, and
Portland and Vancouver. I love allthose places too, but you hear so
much bad about all of them.I'd like to take you and me and
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the documentary crew and you can gothrough the various Antifa encampments you're worried about
up there, and we can compare. Maybe we'll find that they do beat
you up and take your wallet,or maybe it's just fine. I don't
know. You talk about Gordon tentTo tent Yeah, you and me with
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some Danish filmmakers following us. I'dprobably watch that. I don't want to
go, but I'll watch it.Yeah. No, we're finding out whether
or not the West has collapsed foryou, so you can get we're doing
a service comfortably from your home.Determined should this be on your family's vacation
lists or not? See because ofmy fears and whether or not my fears
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are realized or maybe not. Maybeit's not as bad as the leering press
is leading us to believe. Maybenot. Then you can make an informed
consumer decision about just how badly youreally want to go to these places.
Yeah. Yeah, it's not reallyon my short list of places to visit
the American West. Yeah, Imeans better than the American West. It
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rocks. You think Los Angeles,San Francisco, Portland in Seattle, Yeah,
that's well, I just go toVancouver Island, like to go there
anyways. And yeah, but I'mjust like more specifically California. You know,
I don't know him. Yeah,every day you need to at some
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point in my life. Every daythere's a point in the day where I
say, man, I really wishI lived in Los Angeles. Really every
single day. It's so good.You would hate that traffic, you know.
It doesn't bother people like him,really, he has a certain he
is a certain beatific side of hisnature where he's just not annoyed by the
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things that that we the lowly paganare. He just set up life so
you don't have to encounter it much. I'm sure you would encounter it some
regardless, but you know, justdon't leave Silver Lake. You're fine,
okay for Santa Monica. Right,whichever little hamlet I set up in,
in this beautiful life that I'll getthrough one day? Yeah, Ham,
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what are you talking about? Ham? Yeah? Have you heard that?
What are you talking about? Ham? I mean, aside from just now,
where's it from? I have aquestion for you? What about Ham?
Okay? What about Ham? What? What do you mean? What
about Ham? I don't know?Interesting question? What about him? Cam?
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Okay? I enjoyed her live reactionto the new Taylor Swift album announcement
of it. Yes, that cameup on my feed and I appreciate it.
She was her mind was blown thatthere were thirty one new songs that
she could listen to. It wastorn between blown and still tired. Still
tired, definitely tired. Yeah.I said, what do you think she's
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singing about? She said, TravisKelsey and her cat? Yeah? Does
she have a cat? She does? Okay, Well, then probably that
to be a kid. She seemslike should be a cat chick. Oh
yeah, big time. Yeah,there's two cats we Dallas. Okay,
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did anywhere else make the list?There's no other local. It's just PLAINO.
No, it's just PLAINO. SouthLake's not competing in these terms.
No, this is just about theplaces we mentioned. It's not a real
list per se, just to getthe results of a study that you know,
people do a lot of studies.Leave it. Not those folks that's
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smart asset don't have it all theway together. Yeah, so you can
take smart assets word or leave it. I mean, I'm just letting you
know. They wouldn't know real happinessand a bit them in the butt.
No, yeah, they would anyonewho puts together those lists, That's right.
They would not. They can't captureit. You know. They never
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have a list about the joy inchildren's laughter. You know, there's just
a lot about being happy that you'renot going to find in your numbers.
That's true, toc, It's true. That's very that's very thoughtful of you.
That's very heady. Thank you part. It's a very enlightened comment from
you. I've got some more Dallasstuffed. I love Dallas stuff, all
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right, what Dallas stuff have yougot. Well, there's a little bit
of news on the bullet train.Oh yeah, yeah, is it good
news? It's good, but it'sstill a ways away. I mean,
I'm positive the first time I heardabout the bullet train, which was whatever,
the Japanese company came in and saidthey're going to use their technology like
this. It's all this same thatpeople talk about the idea of a train
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for a while. With this specificventure, I am positive that the first
time I heard about it, theirtimeline was that I would be riding on
it by now. Certainly. Yeah, And I think they're just buying themselves
more time with each little announcement thatthey make. I hope they get it
because it works out. The lateston the bullet train comes from an Amtrak
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executive that says, this is sovague and pushing it off even further into
the distance, but still letting usthink that this is going to happen.
An Amtrak executive says that construction ona Texas bullet train between Houston and Dallas
could get underway within ten years.Ten years, I knebe you'd love that.
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Good. Yeah, all right,so it's not happening. I don't
know. I mean, it's notnot happening, they say in ten years.
So the whole problem is acquiring allof the land. Yeah, that's
needed to create this bullet train.And there's a lot of like hoops that
you kind of have to jump throughto do that. They I'm trying to
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remember. I know this was allfought out. What is the status on
eminent domain? Does say in thatarticle. If they can use the state's
powers and just come in and say, here's a fair price, this land
is ours now, then they'll probablyget it done. If they have to
negotiate individually with every single farmer alongthe way, then they're probably just not.
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If each farmer has the ability tosay no, the eminent domain thing,
they lose. The person who ownsloses the ability to say no.
A two twenty two ruling by theTexas Supreme Court that you want this confirmed
that the two hundred and forty milerailway project has the authority to acquire the
needed land. There you go throughimminent domain. Okay, so maybe it
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will happen. So I think that'slike the good news here. Yeah,
and the good news for people wholove the train, terrible news for the
Farmers. Sorry. Yeah, soAmtrak is now working with Texas Central and
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somebody, yeah, somebody from Amtrakmade this announcement at the Southwestern Regional Rail
Conference. Did you get invited tothat? No? It sounds like you
should have been a whole lot aboutthis. How what could they have to
talk about? Is there a lotof rail? Apparently there's a Southwestern Regional
Rail Conference and it was announced thatthe National rail Companies working with Texas Central
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to develop this train. And yes, because of imminent domain they are able
to acquire the land needed. Andin theory, when all of this is
said and done, trains should makethe trip from Houston Dallas in ninety minutes.
So I think this is just somethingwe need to remember in the back
of our minds that someday could happen. But there's no reason to start thinking
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about it or getting excited about it. And you know how long they've been
talking about this. I know it'sbeen DC saying they've been talking about this
since I was ten us along.It's because the idea is so obviously good.
There's a lot of places in theworld with cities of this size,
this distance apart that are well servedby beautiful top speed trains and if we
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could get it done, it wouldbe so good. But they failed to
this point, and until they stoppedfailing, it's going to be hard to
get too excited. Maybe they'll startfailing upward. I mean, I think
they are. I think the peopletelling us whichever specific person was standing in
front of a microphone saying, Iswear TC, we'll definitely have high speed
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rail by twenty twenty four. I'msure that they built a nice house on
the paychecks they were given to saythat, to say that Andy Byford is
the one this time who was makingthese announcements. So maybe we need to
call him up. Let's get himon, have a little chat. Tell
us what's really going on with therail. Nail down some of these details.
I know, I don't promises outto Andy Buyford because when it comes
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to the promise of this train,I don't know, man, I don't
know. I don't know, ma'n. But I do know it's time for
I don't know, man, that'sright. Are we ready for this?
I think? But I think ifpeople still wanted to get in some I
don't know, man's in the break, they can you can you definitely can't,
so talkback. Hit the talk backand get in your I don't know
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man's, because we're about to rollthem out here in the next segment here
on the Freak
I don't know, man. Ilived in Dallas for like eight years,
and six point thirty five has beenunder construction for like eight years. The
highway tolls come from Dallas forworth maneight dollars. I don't know, man,
it's the speak easy. I'm ninetyseven one, the freak. All
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right, we're nearing time for Idon't know, man, But guess what,
As is always the case, there'sstill time for you to get in.
You know. That's a radio thing. A radio thing, I mean,
a real world thing would be totell you that we're nearing time for
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it and you don't have any moretime to get in. A radio thing
is we're starting to approach it,and yes, there's always time for you
to get in. That's the differencebetween radio and the real world. If
you want to get in, getin. Yeah. If you want to
get in, get in. Ifyou want to sing out, sing out?
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All right, let's see where werewe here? God? Yes,
Dallas, Texas, Dallas. Ithink this is the lineup that works best
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Dallas. Whenever I'm selling in,whenever mister Dallas comes in, I just
feel like Mike slows us down insome ways. Oh really like mister Dallas
is here. Well, I loveDallas, so we've got topic alignment there,
alignment Dallas. I've heard people saythat things take another year once we
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can get Mike out in Dallas,Texas. Yeah, I've heard people say
that everything is better without it,Dallas, Texas. Mister Dallas. Who,
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thank you, thank you, thankyou, thank you. Hello.
Hi, Hi, mister Dallas.Hi. Hi. Do you remember TC?
Yeah? I never can remember theinitials, but I remember him.
Oh you see him? You don'tforget him? Yeah? And distinctive looking,
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yeah, very distinctive. Well,I have something about Dallas for you
today. Actually good. I reallydon't like this. I don't like this
one bit bad because this has todo with a suburb. Oh, Julie's
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been spending time in suburbs. Yeah, Frisco, Saturday, Kid Vanya or
whatever it Zania. It was raining. I didn't know what to do with
them. Well, there's an outfitcalled smart Asset, and smart Assets set
out to find where Americans are happiest. Oh see what they did. They're
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a smart asset. Yeah, they'rea financial technology firms, big ass and
they found at a place not inbut near our fair bourgh is the nation's
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second happiest place. Congratulations to GlenHeights. I don't think it's Heights.
What about the twin cities of Wilmerand Hutchins. I don't think it's the
twin city of these Wilmurt and Hutchins. In fact, you better head north.
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No it's not in that area.No, no, it's not.
It better not be Frisco. Ohis it? Is it south of Frisco?
Yeah? I guess, Okay,I think I know what it is.
What is Plano? It is Plano. Yeah, it's a happy place.
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Is the nation's second happiest place.That's crazy. What happens when you
cross over from Plano to Frisco orfrom Plano to somewhere else where. Everybody
just gets unhappy. All these listsare total bs. I lived in Plano.
I mean we were on the right, on the line. I went
to Plano schools. Technically, wereyou happy, Richardson? No, I
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was miserable the whole time. Ionly got happy once I made my way
into Dallas and see the only partof the metroplex worth living. You know
whatever, If people are happy inplaying On, I'm happy for them.
I feel like there's some flaws tothe experience in my opinion, Well,
would you like to hear how smartAsset went about evaluating go ahead places?
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They took into account the marriage rate, the average traffic volume, it's marriage
eal happy in their studies. Ireally don't know. I generally found see
how it could uh yeah, freshlydivorced people. If you're looking for a
happiness rate, I want to knowthe guys who just got out if I've
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found them to be pretty happy.By the large city in town has the
highest population of people who are justdivorced. Yeah, they'll be happy.
The percent of house holds earning morethan one hundred thousand dollars, yeah,
played into this. That helps.The share of residents below the poverty line
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played into this, as well aslife expectancy and the number of residents who
report being physically inactive. Plano scoredexceptionally well all across the board. More
than fifty two percent of its householdsearn more than one hundred thousand dollars and
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only slightly less than five percent orbelow the poverty line, which for a
family of forrest thirty one two hundreddollars. I think you should just drive
through there. You know everyone.You can hear us right now. The
large majority of those people can drivethrough Plano, and I think, if
you have the time this afternoon,just take one drive through and you'll see
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how woefully those metrics don't capture whatactually happens is. Even on the income
thing, I think you need alike they got the minimum there, you
know, like if you're making aboveone hundred thousand, I think that anyone,
if you search your life experience,I'm pretty sure you'll agree there should
be a maximum too. I don'tfeel like it's just a straight line.
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People get happier the more money theymake. No, I would agree with
that. I think there's a pointin there where you have to make so
much money. In order to makethat much money, you have to be
making sacrifices. You have to beputting your job as like a proportion of
your attention. That doesn't really help. In twenty twenty two, I agree,
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the medium house medium household income inPlano was about one hundred and five
thousand dollars according to the US Census. Now compare that to the border town
of Laredo, which was rated thesecond least happy city in the country.
We're more, Only twenty six percentof households earn more than one hundred thousand
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dollars. Twenty percent live below thepoverty line. The median household income in
twenty twenty two in Laredo was roughlysixty thousand dollars. I've gotten biled so
much less than that, it's noteven funny. Yeah, I'd rather live
in, you know, Plano,than Laredo. I wouldn't too, so
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I guess they're capturing something. ButI wonder, I don't know. I
don't want to paint Laredo as abeautiful utopia. I've never been there.
Maybe it is. No, Ihaven't either, But couldn't you see a
situation since it's Laredo specifically, You'retalking about the people who did successfully cross
the border, and I bet allof them were making a lot less than
the numbers you just read. Veryrecently, I wonder if there's a degree
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of gratitude in Laredo that we mightfind refreshing. Maybe could be there could
be a lot of people down therewho are just happy that they made it
across, Yeah, and are willingto be contributing members of American society.
Yeah, Their income doubled once theymade it across. Yeah, things are
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going perspective right, Yeah, thelife expectancy in Plano is eighty two point
two compared to seventy eight point threein Dallas. Interesting really, so if
we move, So when we turnedseventy eight or seventy seven, just to
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be safe, we should move toPlano. Yeah, by ourselves a few
more years, five more years.I think it's probably just just capturing,
like just how many there's some homelesspeople in Plano, but like not a
lot, whereas Dallas is a highershow. I just I think it's probably
the difference in life expectancy is explainedentirely by people who in situation that we're
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probably not going to find ourselves in, which is in a flex. It's
just an observation. Although you know, I think that was I'm pretty close.
I'm pretty close to the margins.That was a flex. If I've
ever heard I've ever ended the room, the odds of living in a tent
a year from now, I thinkthe highest on my side of the table.
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So I'm not not trying to highstep too much. Roughly ninety percent
of Plano residents have health insurance comparedto the league seventy seven percent in Dallas.
So there. Yeah, that's someof what I'm talking about about,
that life expectancy. Now, Iknow you may find this shocking, TC,
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but this is not the first timePlano has received attention for just how
happy it is. In twenty twentytwo, was named the sixth happiest city
in the US. It has alsobeen named one of the safest cities and
one of the best places to raisea family. Yeah. Yeah, this
was the drum beat my entire lifegrowing up there. And I don't know,
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man, I I would have likedsomewhere else. We got one.
We got one in the wild.We need to save it forever. Now.
If you're looking for the happiest state, though, yeah, that is
the happiest state, Hawaii, you'llhave to head for California, where three
of the cities landed in the topten. Okay, I find that rather
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difficult to believe. Why are theyall moving here then, California or Texas?
That's right. California is a niceplace, Yeah it is. There's
a lot of beautiful vistas there is. There's a lot of your sister lives
there, yeah she does. There'sa lot of nice stuff out there,
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A lot of nice places out there, but there's also a lot of suffering.
Yeah, And these days, wheneverI see anything about California, what
I see mostly is how miserable thecities are, how miserable. San Francisco,
a place that I used to lovegoing to, is always I don't
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think i'd want to go out there. Now you should try it. You
don't know until you get there.Yeah, I know. I mean there
are a couple of other places likethat, like Seattle, Yeah, and
Portland and Vancouver. I love allthose places too, but you hear so
much bad about all of them.I'd like to take you and me and
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the documentary crew and you can gothrough the various Antifa encampments you're worried about
up there, and we can compare. Maybe we'll find that they do beat
you up and take your wallet,or maybe it's just fine. I don't
know. You talk about Gordon tentTo tent Yeah, you and me with
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some Danish filmmakers following us. I'dprobably watch that. I don't want to
go, but I'll watch it.Yeah. No, we're finding out whether
or not the West has collapsed foryou, so you can get we're doing
a service comfortably from your home.Determined should this be on your family's vacation
lists or not? See because ofmy fears and whether or not my fears
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are realized or maybe not. Maybeit's not as bad as the leering press
is leading us to believe. Maybenot. Then you can make an informed
consumer decision about just how badly youreally want to go to these places.
Yeah. Yeah, it's not reallyon my short list of places to visit
the American West. Yeah, Imeans better than the American West. It
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rocks. You think Los Angeles,San Francisco, Portland in Seattle, Yeah,
that's well, I just go toVancouver Island, like to go there
anyways. And yeah, but I'mjust like more specifically California. You know,
I don't know him. Yeah,every day you need to at some
(14:13):
point in my life. Every daythere's a point in the day where I
say, man, I really wishI lived in Los Angeles. Really every
single day. It's so good.You would hate that traffic, you know.
It doesn't bother people like him,really, he has a certain he
is a certain beatific side of hisnature where he's just not annoyed by the
(14:37):
things that that we the lowly paganare. He just set up life so
you don't have to encounter it much. I'm sure you would encounter it some
regardless, but you know, justdon't leave Silver Lake. You're fine,
okay for Santa Monica. Right,whichever little hamlet I set up in,
in this beautiful life that I'll getthrough one day? Yeah, Ham,
(15:03):
what are you talking about? Ham? Yeah? Have you heard that?
What are you talking about? Ham? I mean, aside from just now,
where's it from? I have aquestion for you? What about Ham?
Okay? What about Ham? What? What do you mean? What
about Ham? I don't know?Interesting question? What about him? Cam?
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Okay? I enjoyed her live reactionto the new Taylor Swift album announcement
of it. Yes, that cameup on my feed and I appreciate it.
She was her mind was blown thatthere were thirty one new songs that
she could listen to. It wastorn between blown and still tired. Still
tired, definitely tired. Yeah.I said, what do you think she's
(15:54):
singing about? She said, TravisKelsey and her cat? Yeah? Does
she have a cat? She does? Okay, Well, then probably that
to be a kid. She seemslike should be a cat chick. Oh
yeah, big time. Yeah,there's two cats we Dallas. Okay,
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did anywhere else make the list?There's no other local. It's just PLAINO.
No, it's just PLAINO. SouthLake's not competing in these terms.
No, this is just about theplaces we mentioned. It's not a real
list per se, just to getthe results of a study that you know,
people do a lot of studies.Leave it. Not those folks that's
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smart asset don't have it all theway together. Yeah, so you can
take smart assets word or leave it. I mean, I'm just letting you
know. They wouldn't know real happinessand a bit them in the butt.
No, yeah, they would anyonewho puts together those lists, That's right.
They would not. They can't captureit. You know. They never
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have a list about the joy inchildren's laughter. You know, there's just
a lot about being happy that you'renot going to find in your numbers.
That's true, toc, It's true. That's very that's very thoughtful of you.
That's very heady. Thank you part. It's a very enlightened comment from
you. I've got some more Dallasstuffed. I love Dallas stuff, all
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right, what Dallas stuff have yougot. Well, there's a little bit
of news on the bullet train.Oh yeah, yeah, is it good
news? It's good, but it'sstill a ways away. I mean,
I'm positive the first time I heardabout the bullet train, which was whatever,
the Japanese company came in and saidthey're going to use their technology like
this. It's all this same thatpeople talk about the idea of a train
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for a while. With this specificventure, I am positive that the first
time I heard about it, theirtimeline was that I would be riding on
it by now. Certainly. Yeah, And I think they're just buying themselves
more time with each little announcement thatthey make. I hope they get it
because it works out. The lateston the bullet train comes from an Amtrak
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executive that says, this is sovague and pushing it off even further into
the distance, but still letting usthink that this is going to happen.
An Amtrak executive says that construction ona Texas bullet train between Houston and Dallas
could get underway within ten years.Ten years, I knebe you'd love that.
(18:34):
Good. Yeah, all right,so it's not happening. I don't
know. I mean, it's notnot happening, they say in ten years.
So the whole problem is acquiring allof the land. Yeah, that's
needed to create this bullet train.And there's a lot of like hoops that
you kind of have to jump throughto do that. They I'm trying to
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remember. I know this was allfought out. What is the status on
eminent domain? Does say in thatarticle. If they can use the state's
powers and just come in and say, here's a fair price, this land
is ours now, then they'll probablyget it done. If they have to
negotiate individually with every single farmer alongthe way, then they're probably just not.
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If each farmer has the ability tosay no, the eminent domain thing,
they lose. The person who ownsloses the ability to say no.
A two twenty two ruling by theTexas Supreme Court that you want this confirmed
that the two hundred and forty milerailway project has the authority to acquire the
needed land. There you go throughimminent domain. Okay, so maybe it
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will happen. So I think that'slike the good news here. Yeah,
and the good news for people wholove the train, terrible news for the
Farmers. Sorry. Yeah, soAmtrak is now working with Texas Central and
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somebody, yeah, somebody from Amtrakmade this announcement at the Southwestern Regional Rail
Conference. Did you get invited tothat? No? It sounds like you
should have been a whole lot aboutthis. How what could they have to
talk about? Is there a lotof rail? Apparently there's a Southwestern Regional
Rail Conference and it was announced thatthe National rail Companies working with Texas Central
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to develop this train. And yes, because of imminent domain they are able
to acquire the land needed. Andin theory, when all of this is
said and done, trains should makethe trip from Houston Dallas in ninety minutes.
So I think this is just somethingwe need to remember in the back
of our minds that someday could happen. But there's no reason to start thinking
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about it or getting excited about it. And you know how long they've been
talking about this. I know it'sbeen DC saying they've been talking about this
since I was ten us along.It's because the idea is so obviously good.
There's a lot of places in theworld with cities of this size,
this distance apart that are well servedby beautiful top speed trains and if we
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could get it done, it wouldbe so good. But they failed to
this point, and until they stoppedfailing, it's going to be hard to
get too excited. Maybe they'll startfailing upward. I mean, I think
they are. I think the peopletelling us whichever specific person was standing in
front of a microphone saying, Iswear TC, we'll definitely have high speed
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rail by twenty twenty four. I'msure that they built a nice house on
the paychecks they were given to saythat, to say that Andy Byford is
the one this time who was makingthese announcements. So maybe we need to
call him up. Let's get himon, have a little chat. Tell
us what's really going on with therail. Nail down some of these details.
I know, I don't promises outto Andy Buyford because when it comes
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to the promise of this train,I don't know, man, I don't
know. I don't know, ma'n. But I do know it's time for
I don't know, man, that'sright. Are we ready for this?
I think? But I think ifpeople still wanted to get in some I
don't know, man's in the break, they can you can you definitely can't,
so talkback. Hit the talk backand get in your I don't know
(22:23):
man's, because we're about to rollthem out here in the next segment here
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